*p1796 03 14 cg The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mr Ford-Pope; Dr Caius-Quick; Mr Page-Macready; Sir Hugh Evans-Townsend; Slender-Knight (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Fenton-Toms; Justice Shallow-Powel; Host of the Garter-Thompson; Jack Rugby-Farley; Falstaff-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Page-Mrs Mattocks; Anne Page (1st time)-Miss Mansel; Dame Quickly (1st time)-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pope.*a1796 03 14 cg High Life below Stairs. Duke's Servant (for that night only)-Lewis; Lovell-Munden; Sir Harry's Servant (with a <i>Mock Minuet</i>)-Knight; Philip-Davenport; Freeman-Macready; Tom-Rees; Robert-Thompson; Coachman-Powel; Lady Charlotte-Miss Logan; Cook-Mrs Norton; Lady Bab-Mrs Davenport; Kitty (with a <i>song</i> and <i>Mock Minuet</i>, for that night only)-Mrs Pope.*e1796 03 14 cg <i>Monologue</i>.End: $Collins's= <i>Ode on the Passions</i> (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope.*s1796 03 14 cg After the monologue: <i>My Mother had a Maid called Barbara</i> (words by $Shakespeare=, music by $Shield=)-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Minstrel's Song [<i>Where is that tow'ring spirit fled</i>?] from <i>The Days of Yore</i>-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; <i>O why to be happy</i> (music by $Shield=)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; <i>Ye Gentlemen of England</i>-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton.*c1796 03 14 cg Benefit for $Mrs Pope=. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years. <i>Oracle</i>, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house in <i>Half Moon-street</i>, <i>Piccadilly</i>. Receipts: #498 5s. (319.2; 8.12; tickets: 170.11).